CHAPTER 2 : SHE DOESN'T KNOW IT

Elsa watched through her tears as Pappie removed her sister's memories entirely. Elsa felt like she was saying goodbye forever, or like her sister was dying. In a way, this was Anna's funeral. Elsa faced the ground and a man she had come to know for a few days walked up beside her and put a comforting arm around her.

"It's not goodbye." He assured her, "She's still alive, you get to start all over again with your relationship. She'll never bring up the fact you shut her out, or her ex-engagement to Hans, or how she went all that way to find you just to make you feel guilty."

"Or that she loves chocolate, or what she did as a child without me around, or how I'm the best sister in the world, or beg me to freeze Hans into a statue, or how she loves me no matter how much work she put into getting close to me," Elsa said, "or how she loves my powers no matter how dangerous they are, or teach me some tips on love. All of that? Gone."

Kristoff looked at the ground. "She won't remember me, either, will she?"

Elsa shook her head and gave him a hug, knowing how upset he must feel. They were in the same, sinking boat of lost memories. "Anna won't be quirky, clumsy or fun anymore," Elsa knew she was breaking her own heart, but somehow she couldn't help it. She felt Kristoff take a tearful breath, and she held him tighter. Her tears hit his back, and his hit hers. She enjoyed having physical contact with other human beings, and she didn't let go until he wanted to get a closer look at the new Anna.

Anna woke up, at last, and Elsa looked at her hopefully. Maybe, just maybe, Anna remembered a little about her...?

"Who are you?" Asked Anna. She sounded the same, but the words she said made Elsa rest her head on the bed of ice and sob. "Oh, I'm sorry! Don't cry, I just—I don't know who I am or where I am, don't take it personally—I don't remember myself, even." Anna was still quirky, and careless with her hands, but she didn't remember the sister who she loved so much previously.

Kristoff grabbed Elsa's hand and squeezed it reassuringly. Elsa looked up, face red and tear-stained. Kristoff's face was just as tear stained and blotchy as Elsa was, but somehow, he didn't look as pathetic.

"I have the feeling I should know you," said Anna helpfully, "but it's like trying to fit a puzzle piece in a spot it doesn't belong, or trying to look someone in the eye in a dream."

Oh my, gosh. thought Elsa. She's smarter than Anna, too.

"I want my sister back." demanded Elsa of Pabbie. Pabbie tried to reason with her, but Elsa demanded and protested without end, and what's worse, she said to do it because she's the Queen and what she says goes. Why is that bad? Because that's not Elsa. "No! Stop trying to change my mind! Fifteen minutes ago I knew my sister, now I feel like she's dead and someone gave me a cheap lookalike-only replica."

"I'm sorry," said Anna honestly, "if I knew how to be like you want me to be, I would be that way. I feel bad that I make you remember how you used to know me. I just don't remember. I'm truly sorry."

Anna might not have Anna's brain, but she did have her heart. Elsa threw her arms around her sister. Anna hugged her back. A memory flickered before her mind. She was freezing into ice and this man who she could not see the face of was going to slice her body in half. Then another one, of a blonde man throwing her onto a reindeer, and the reindeer jumped across the ditch. More memories flashed before her face. Not one of them were happy.

Anna's mind was spinning as she remembered things she didn't think were there before.

"Whoa..." she gasped, trying to wrap her mind around it. Elsa tried to catch the girl who was about to buckle.

"Anna? Are you alright?" Asked Kristoff, Elsa nodded like she wanted to know too. Anna could not reply as memories of crashing down the stairs of a palace, news of dead parents and icicles flying out of Elsa's hands flew at her like meteorites.

"I—I can't speak..." Anna said aloud. Her vision was flickering and her head was pounding. Suddenly she wasn't sure if she wanted her memories back.

Anna! She remembered, and the last thing she saw was herself knocking over a lamp and a fire caught her as she fell. Anna fell to the snow Elsa had just created before Anna blacked out.

Anna dreamt that she was setting a kingdom on fire. Somehow she knew that the name of the town was Arendelle. She didn't mean to do it. People were pushing her and hitting her with whips, and she said she promised to put them out, but nobody gave her a chance. Queen Elsa searched the crowd for Anna, hoping she could help her.

"Anna!" She cried fearfully. Tears crowded her eyes, and she searched even harder. "I'm trying to help!"

Anna tried to reach the Queen, but the crowd pushed her away from her. Anna was raging up as tears flooded her vision, and more terrifying memories flashed before her eyes before the crowd called her an evil witch, and threw water and fire anther, saying, die, evil sorceress! Elsa screamed her name right before Anna rose above the fire and the water, and shot more of each at her new-found enemies. Elsa protested, but now Anna's fury was too much to hold in.

And then she woke up.

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Anna looked up at Elsa again. Everything was tinged red, and her eyes were throbbing. The more she blinked to fix it, the more her head hurt. Elsa's voice sounded far away. She didn't understand a word she said, and everything around her was singed with fire, and she had a feeling it had something to do with her nightmare.

"Are you alright?" Asked Elsa slowly. Anna found herself unable to speak, and so she shook her head, and signed 'no' in sign language. Elsa signed 'what's wrong?', Anna signed 'I don't know'.

Elsa's face showed worry. 'Can you hear me?'

'Not much.' Signed Anna.'Can't see good.'

Elsa could not mask her panic this time. Anna didn't remember much about this woman, but obviously Elsa was concerned not only for Anna's well-being, but as to how Anna knew sign language when she had no memories from before her treatment.

Elsa said something to Kristoff, and then he replied, and she laughed, and jumped, and threw her arms around his neck. Anna wished she understood them, but being deaf and half-blind did not help. Kristoff exited into the woods, and came back with Pabbie troll, who waved a hand over Anna's eyes and ears, and instantly Anna could see and hear again.

Anna hated her memories now, because all of them were horrible.

"Anna, what happened?" asked Kristoff.

"I...I don't know." she replied. "All I remember is these horrible things. I have no good memories. Maybe it's a sign."

Elsa's heart pounded way too fast than she'd like it to pound. Anna meant maybe what she was meant to be was bad, and that was why she has these sudden outbursts, and had dreams of her horrible past life. Anna felt she was meant to crush the innocent children of the world, and build her evil empire. Elsa knew she had grown up with a better sister than this.

"No!" insisted Elsa. "You are not evil, Anna. You're quirky, fun, naïve, and that crazy girl who wanted to marry a man she just met, and chased me half-way across the country just to bring summer back for the citizens of Arendelle! Does any of that sound evil?"

Anna turned blood red. "I did?"

"Yeah! So what? All your memories are nightmares in a daydream, but your character is built the opposite. Anna, you are the little sister of the Snow Queen, if either one of us is evil it's probably me. I hope you see that before it's too late." Elsa ran off to cry. Words from her own mouth were meant to comfort Anna, not to make herself cry. She heard footsteps behind her, and she knew from the shadow that it was not Anna. Kristoff sat down next to her.

"That was beautiful, Elsa." He told her, "And so are you."

She nudged him playfully.

"You're just saying that to get me to stop crying." she accused him.

"And if I am?" said Kristoff. "Look, I may not have Anna anymore, but at least I have you."

"Oh please." Implied Elsa, "I'm the Snow Queen, remember?"

"And I'm the official ice deliverer guy, remember?" said Kristoff. "You're ice, and ice is my life."

Elsa felt touched. No, literally, he was hugging her. She hated being touched, but for once...she let it go. For him only.

Anna had dreamless sleep that night. But it didn't mean she slept well. She couldn't stop thinking about what Elsa had said. Man you just met...halfway across the country...just to bring back summer for the citizens of Arendelle... Then she remembered seeing Elsa and Kristoff by the tree, hugging and comforting each other. Anna couldn't help but notice that they kept pressing on that their Anna was dead. And that she was nothing like the other Anna. Occasionally, Anna felt she was being compared to other Anna, and had this desire to meet this other Anna.

Then, she did have a dream. Except, it wasn't a dream.

She was standing in a coronation ballroom, and she saw people everywhere. Then she saw Elsa, standing next to another girl, who seemed to have trouble finding the right words to say to her.

Anna went to go ask Elsa where she was. Except Elsa didn't have a braid, and wasn't wearing a gorgeous ice dress, and she looked so trapped, despite all the people here.

"Elsa?" said Anna. Elsa looked over at her.

"Um...who are you?" she asked politely.

"That's Queen Elsa to you Madame. And you seem to be forgetting moi." The girl beside Elsa said.

"It's me, Anna." said Anna, as if this should be obvious.

"Is this some sort of cruel joke?!"

"Your sister?" Reminded Anna.

Elsa had not said a word until now. She looked at Anna and blinked.

"No." she declared. "Anna is right next to me. You can't be her too." Elsa faced away as if Anna was crazy. You have to listen!

Anna pulled Elsa's hand, but as Elsa tugged away in panic, the glove fell off, and a cold surge went up Anna's back, and her head was suddenly cold.

"What the..."said the other girl. "How did you..."

Anna's hair now had a white streak through it. Anna could not understand.

And then she woke up. Quickly, she ran to the mirror. What she saw mortified her. What it lead to made it look silly. Anna fell to the ground, pain growing out over her

Help me... she thought, hoping someone was nearby to help her. Somebody.

Sorry it it includes so many drama scenes, but I' msg into them right now.